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Failures and accidents

16 Jan 18

Ten people killed in Colombian bridge collapse

Colombia’s civil defence authority and relief agencies are carrying out search and rescue operations to find any people still missing after the collapse of a major cable-stayed bridge under construction.

Defensa Civil Colombiana said yesterday that 10 people had died and three had been injured.

Photographs accompanying local reports show the collapse of an entire pylon and substantial section of deck. It appears that a considerable amount of the deck of the cable-stayed bridge across a valley had already been completed.

The victims are workers who were performing drainage work for the bridge in Chirajara on the Bogotá Villavicencio road, said Defensa Civil Colombian. It added that the total number of people working there had not yet been verified.